Example sentences of "of whom we " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm advising Rosita , by the way reminding her of Malcolm Lowry , of whom we 're all fans . |
| 2 | If they were not told the embarrassing source of these words — and perhaps even if they were — most Asians would give a vigorous nod of approval to the sentiments expressed by Neville Chamberlain when Germany annexed the Sudetenland in 1938 : ‘ How horrible , fantastic , incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing . ’ |
| 3 | As revolution followed revolution , I recalled Neville Chamberlain 's infamous remark in the days after he sanctioned Hitler 's partition of Czechoslovakia : ‘ A distant people of whom we know nothing . ’ |
| 4 | She was a staunch Methodist and a great admirer of our mutual friend Edna Jacques , of whom we often spoke . |
| 5 | The ladies of our period of whom we know more than the name were almost always ladies of exceptional character or talent , who force themselves on our notice partly at least for this reason . |
| 6 | By equating our culture with pornography it threw a cordon sanitaire around us and all our works so as to safeguard the public , of whom we are not considered part , from our corrupting influence . |
| 7 | Our Christian motivation is to honour Christ in all we do , including the quality of our work irrespective of whom we work for , whether they are good employers or not . |
| 8 | Individuals in that generation of whom we know most seem to have grappled uncertainly with how to deal with their growing understanding of and revulsion from the slave trade ; sometimes it was almost to their own surprise that they arrived at a commitment sufficiently deep to devote a major portion of their time and energies to the cause . |
| 9 | Of course , few of us really set out to destroy someone of whom we are jealous ; none the less Hegel is describing an extreme form of such a feeling . |
| 10 | I hope that after his next public performance of Odyssey , Simon Rattle will be encouraged to take this amazing score and hold it high in honour of this wonderful composer , of whom we know so little , who has had the courage to write such stirring and inspirational music , at heavenly lengths , in our time . |
| 11 | ’ … of whom we think in our romantic way that one and only one is the ideal mate . |
| 12 | The Honorary Members were John Couch Adams , the astronomer ; William Crookes , the chemist , of whom we shall hear more ; W. E. Gladstone , Prime Minister again early in that year in the midst of the Irish Home Rule struggles ; John Ruskin ; Lord Tennyson ; A. R. Wallace , the co-discoverer of natural selection ; and G. F. Watts , the painter . |
| 13 | Of the seventeen pieces in this collection , which survives complete only in the second edition of 1533 , no fewer than eight — only seven in the 1533 version — are by Philippe Verdelot ( d. c. 1540 ) , a Frenchman who lived in Italy from a very early age , two ( three in the second edition ) are by an Italian , Costanzo Festa ( C. 1495–1545 ) , one is by another Festa , Sebastiano , of whom we know nothing , one by a mysterious ‘ Maistre Jan ’ or Ihan who has only recently been identified as ‘ a French-born musician active at the court of Ferrara from 1512 to about 1543 ’ , and the remainder by still more shadowy characters . |
| 14 | So as a small token of appreciation , I just have two books or two copies of the same book which I would like to hand to your president and to your general secretary as a token of appreciation and it 's the authorized biography of Nelson Mandela of whom we are all very proud , considering what he has suffered through and what he has done and we hope that this little token will be a kind of memento for all your support but by doing this I 'm not saying that your support is over because the struggle continues . |
| 15 | 95% Political — perhaps necessary for subject , but tend to lose vision of whom we serve |
| 16 | Our members , of whom we have about 2,000 across the whole of Scotland , are almost all committed to environmental issues and therefore form a logical target population for membership of EIG . |
| 17 | Our members , of whom we have about 2,000 across the whole of Scotland , are almost all committed to environmental issues and therefore form a logical target population for membership of ETA . |
| 18 | ‘ Therefore , ’ said Milton , ‘ since there appear to be only five possibles — all of whom we have decided are improbables — we 're going to have to work quite hard . |
| 19 | ( Part of the reason for this undoubtedly lay in the fact that the foraging hominids of whom we are speaking were in part already pre-adapted to upright posture by an evolutionary past different to that of today 's gelada baboon and because they probably already possessed cerebral development going beyond that of a mere monkey thanks to their common ancestry with today 's great apes . ) |
| 20 | They are the fraction of whom we know most . |